Comments on: Did We Get Suckered by Firefox 3?

By: John

John — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:33:51 +0000

Firefox 3.0 is crap. I mean, what the hell mozilla? This thing is so damn slow to do anything.. it takes FOREVER to load up, and when it does it still just hangs there. Don't give me crap about having to clean out my folders, I shouldn't have to do that and didn't do that before in firefox 2.0.

I think Mozilla is becoming more like microsoft, adding needless components to force people to upgrade their computer. Look a google chrome. it runs much faster and smoother than firefox, so don't tell me firefox is perfect, it's a disgrace. Period.

By: basyl wyatt

basyl wyatt — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:43:09 +0000

The latest product Firefox 3 sucks. As soon I upgraded to Firefox 3 at least once a day my bookmarks are lost. I tried to restore bookmarks but I am always told “unable to process backup file.” I try to do a backup so that I do not loose my bookmarks but the file cannot then be find.
Do you have any idea how annoying is to have to restart the computer everyday because of lost bookmarks? Never had any problems of this sort with the previous version of Firefox. If this continues I will uninstall firefox and use other more reliable browsers for bookmarks!

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:28:46 +0000

I’ve recently switched to Safari, because Firefox 3 CONSTANTLY crashes. I’ve never had this problem with the older versions and it’s finally driven me over the edge.

By: "P" Bizzle

"P" Bizzle — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:08:28 +0000

I have been using the beta version for a while and really have no complaints except for the auto-complete feature, as of now I’m still digging it, but i would like to see some of the add ons work. And as far as the security problem i didn’t know nothing of it till reading this page.

By: mrbene

mrbene — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:57:01 +0000

“It is strange that Firefox 3 offers no way for people to turn off the auto-populate tool even though it’s a major change from Firefox 2.”

This text is incorrect. It is fully possible to disable the auto-populate. It is not possible to have auto-populate based only on the URLs typed and visited.

Fx3 automatically includes HTML Title attribute as well as bookmark names and other “tags” applied to bookmarks. It also does a substring match on the entire text, as opposed to a “starts with” match as was the earlier behavior. It is these behaviors that cannot be disabled.

Effectively, the entire behavior of the URL bar has been modified, with no ability to change the configuration to the previous, simpler behavior. The developer response has been effectively “suck it up or write an extension”, which is pretty poor, but has motivated some people to write extensions.

Supposedly Old Location Bar extension is mostly replicating the Fx2 behavior, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637 , but I’ve not got Fx3 installed at the moment.

By: Christiana

Christiana — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:33:42 +0000

After getting Firefox 3, my computer has slowed down a lot. Thanks.

By: tsudohnimh

tsudohnimh — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:24:48 +0000

I guess I missed why you felt suckered by Firefox. The only complaints you voiced are with the address bar and some Addon compatibility.

I personally love the new address bar as it has reduced the time it takes for me to visit a URL. I agree Mozilla should add a disable option but I also understand that you can get FF2 behavior by changing browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped=true” in about:config.

Concerning extensions I’m not sure I agree with your contention that this is a Mozilla problem. Addons and their subsequent updates are responsibility of the Addon creator. I was initially disappointed that Del.icio.us and TinyURL didn’t offer a FF3 compatible Addons but both released FF3 addon updates within 24 hours.

I truly enjoy Firefox so I have a skewed perspective but I don’t think anyone could support an argument of being suckered.

By: ChangeForge… a catalyst to affect the paradigm » Firefox 3: The Great Let Down?

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:41:53 +0000

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By: Ken Stewart (ChangeForge)

Ken Stewart (ChangeForge) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:02:33 +0000

let me tell you that I waited a day or 2 before downloading. I was being a little contrary to the campaign, but aside from that wanted to give FF another whirl. I did so and have used it on and off – and asked my wife to use it as well, being a former Q/A tester in a children’s software company.

Neither of us has been overly impressed. At first, it seemed to load pages faster than did previous versions and IE especially. However, as time went on and I have used it, there are several things that keep getting in the way – namely the fact that my plugins for other apps don’t work correctly about 30% of the time.

In a nutshell, Firefox 3 has disappointed me in its first release. I will wait for another .1 revision as well before becoming a fan boy.

By: Laurent’s blog » Around the web this week

Laurent’s blog » Around the web this week — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:44:42 +0000

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